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The question that must be asked: Was Epstein running 'honey traps' and blackmailing the power elite?
American Thinker ^ | July 9, 2019 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 07/09/2019 11:07:41 AM PDT by detective

It strikes me as quite unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein's motive for allegedly inviting powerful figures from the U.S. and Europe aboard the Lolita Express on a trip to Orgy Island was mere fellowship — as if they were playing a round of golf together. My dominant hypothesis is that he was video-recording highly illegal and morally reprehensible rapes for use as blackmail material. It might have been insurance against serious prosecution for his indulging in his own perversion, which would explain why his punishment the first time he was prosecuted was laughably light:

In June 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a single state charge of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as 14, he was sentenced to 18 months in prison. Instead of being sent to state prison like the majority of sex offenders convicted in Florida, Epstein was housed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County stockade. He was able to hire his own security detail and was allowed "work release" to his downtown office for up to 12 hours a day six days a week. He served 13 months before being released for a year of probation. While on probation he was allowed numerous trips on his corporate jet to his homes in Manhattan and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

But a man who made serious money on Wall Street might well appreciate the utility of being able to blackmail people into sharing secret information, or rendering government decisions that favor him, among many other possibilities.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: clintonepstein; epstein; epsteinblackmail; jepstein; jepsteincase
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It has been said that blackmail was a large part of Epstein's child sex operation.
1 posted on 07/09/2019 11:07:41 AM PDT by detective
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Why isn’t congress demanding full release of every tape?


2 posted on 07/09/2019 11:09:41 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: detective

Possible, but high stakes game with the very rich. They have many different resources available.


3 posted on 07/09/2019 11:09:54 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: detective

Maybe it is true. Now that he is cornered it is time to use that material to make a deal with the feds.


4 posted on 07/09/2019 11:10:55 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: detective

He’d have been Arkancied a long time ago if he was in the blackmail business. The rich and powerful have ways of making problems disappear.


5 posted on 07/09/2019 11:12:34 AM PDT by bgill
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To: detective

He probably made big money and increased his political power with videos.


6 posted on 07/09/2019 11:13:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Keep America Great! Vote for President Trump in 2020! KAGA! Keep America Great, Again!)
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To: detective

Could be the most powerful from several continents are implicated ???


7 posted on 07/09/2019 11:13:53 AM PDT by no-to-illegals (Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die)
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To: detective

“It strikes me as quite unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein’s motive for allegedly inviting powerful figures from the U.S. and Europe aboard the Lolita Express on a trip to Orgy Island was mere fellowship — as if they were playing a round of golf together.”

Blackmail? Perhaps ... but that’s a good way to end up dead ... especially with the Clintons.

Occam’s Razor. It stroked his ego to provide unique services for rich and powerful clients ... and ... the pervert just liked it.


8 posted on 07/09/2019 11:16:08 AM PDT by plain talk
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But, what if Epstein had the resources of a large intelligence agency available?


9 posted on 07/09/2019 11:16:11 AM PDT by Eurotwit (FRexit? No. AdiEU. - Loud Mime)
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To: detective

He has the pictures, name and dates locked up in his vault in NYC.... Oh the FBI raided that vault?

Did the deep state plant a Trump photo?


10 posted on 07/09/2019 11:16:15 AM PDT by ncfool (America Reborn 1/20/2017. Lets make sure we don't screw up,the opportunity to MAGA.)
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To: dsrtsage

because half of them on on the photo’s and tapes.


11 posted on 07/09/2019 11:17:01 AM PDT by ncfool (America Reborn 1/20/2017. Lets make sure we don't screw up,the opportunity to MAGA.)
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To: detective

Epstein was running nectar traps


12 posted on 07/09/2019 11:17:11 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: bgill

Maybe he had a dead man’s switch to keep breathing. It wouldn’t surprise me if Mossad had everything and would release it if something happened to Epstein.


13 posted on 07/09/2019 11:19:37 AM PDT by Gahanna Bob
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To: Eurotwit

There are still fixers that will get the job done. The world has more than a few very scary serious people that are not on any three letter agencies radar.


14 posted on 07/09/2019 11:20:13 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: detective

Robert Maxwell, the father of Jeffrey Epstein’s main procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, was widely reported as a Mossad asset.


15 posted on 07/09/2019 11:22:10 AM PDT by BeauBo
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No. You cannot blackmail people of this stature and power and influence and live very long.

IMHO it was a Bohemian club of sorts or a subset of.


16 posted on 07/09/2019 11:22:48 AM PDT by Fhios
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It is bizarre that no public sources know with any certainty how Epstein made his $billions. Its all just “money management” - supposedly for other billionaires, and all off-shore.


17 posted on 07/09/2019 11:24:34 AM PDT by PGR88
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I’m waiting patiently to be plied by honey traps...


18 posted on 07/09/2019 11:25:32 AM PDT by karnage
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“Why isn’t congress demanding full release of every tape?”

Because there are probably plenty members of Congress in those tapes.


19 posted on 07/09/2019 11:27:23 AM PDT by caver
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To: bgill

“””He’d have been Arkancied a long time ago if he was in the blackmail business. The rich and powerful have ways of making problems disappear.”””


I tend to see it this way as well. The powerful have their methods of informing each other and if there had been any inkling that Epstein was blackmailing, the powerful would have eliminated the threat a long time ago.

This is a case of sex perversion and those who are addicted.


20 posted on 07/09/2019 11:30:40 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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